Apogee Mini Grand Questions

Prior to the availability of the subs the 'Stage' was recommended as a class 'B' rating. I believe it was Thomas Norton who wrote the original review. In his words the "midband was as natural as I've heard", I believe were his words.

The 'Stage' imho, does female vocals better than anything on the planet, including other Apogee models.

Please, take note. The midrange and up are so clean, you'll tend to play them louder than you realize. When you see the ribbon do the 'wave', then you need to back it down a little.

They don't run flat, and for that reason alone some folks don't like them, but they are the most fun I've ever heard.

BTW, highly addictive.

A word of caution. If you get the spkr. too far out into the room, they will boom. Too close to the wall they boom also, just like other speakers.

Good luck

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The Pass is wonderful. The 350 is more than you need for the panels/ribbons. Krell is too ss for the Stage. I used tubes on my Stage speakers. The usual set up for Minigrands is to biamp or triamp.

I have some comments about Muralman1's comments:

1. Mini Grand's must be actively bi-amped.

2. You can NEVER have too much power.

3. If Krell "is too ss" for Stages, why did Jason Bloom of Apogee use them.

Jason Bloom was using the Krell years ago. If he were still in the business, I doubt very much he would restrict his amp choice to old favorites. I have a friend who was running his Minigrands with a Krell/Aragon. After I demonstrated my tube amp on his Stage, he sold the Krell and is now using the hybrid Llano Trinity, with the Aragon below. With such a revealing speaker, Krells and many other ss amps sound too dry and grainy.

The Stage was designed to use amps in the 100 watt range and an upper limit clearly stated of 200 watts. If you are like my friend, who is very conservative with the volume knob, you can put any mega beast on the stage, but one has to ask, why?

I did mention the Minigrand is usually biamped or triamped.

Why?

Because all else being equal, a "mega beast" even at lower volumes will peform more fluidly and effortlessly than a less powerful amp.

Like RAM in your computer and HP in your car, there is never too much power.